Giveaway! Meaningful Beauty by Cindy Crawford

It’s hard to believe that my 30 days of Meaningful Beauty are up already! I may not look like Cindy, but I sure feel like superwoman after a month of channeling her mission of living with meaning. It’s amazing how simple life becomes when you take care of yourself and those you love! For the final week I’m hauling myself through the snow to the ‘burbs to have birthday dinner with one of my best friends and the funniest guy I know, my dad, then will be spending the weekend painting the living room and drinking wine with the best mother-in-law on in the world. And for you, dear readers, I’m giving away on one but THREE Meaningful Beauty 30-day anti-aging kits! To qualify, you’ll need to pony up a meaningful activity of your own and leave it below in the comments section.

For anyone who has been hard-pressed to get on a skincare regimen, this is for you. Not only is it straight-forward and easy to follow, but covers all the steps that are tempting to skip—like SPF! The kit also includes a surprise bonus that I added into my routine last week, the Glowing Serum. Dr. Sebagh calls it his “model secret,” previously available only to his exclusive clientele. Well dahling, it most definitely adds that subtle glow we can all use.

So who’s in? Excited to hear what good you’ll be doing! I’ll select a winner at the end of the week—good luck!

With the storm on Sunday we slid off the road and in to a ditch. I’ve never been so scared before for my life and those of loved ones with me. This week and many more ahead I’ll be grateful for everything I have, and I won’t be sweating the small stuff. Mostly, I’ll meaningfully spread joy and kindness and hope its contagious.

I will work on my “the grass is greener syndrome” and express gratitude for the amazing gifts I’m giving each day. A friend with two small children recently lost her husband to a long battle with cancer. I’m so thankful for the health and unconditional love of my family and friends. I will practice this gratitude in honor of those who are struggling with loss and misfortune. I am truly blessed.

My meaningful activity this holiday season is to try and take in the beauty of the holidays instead of frantically stressing about everything. This include taking time to take care of myself, being patient with those I love the most instead of taking out my stress on them, and taking time to reflect on all the blessings in my life.

My meaningful activity is shopping for an angel tree family for Christmas. My immediate family decided to forgo the usual “you by me this and I’ll buy you that” routine and spend our money on someone who really needs it.

I would love to try Meaningful Beauty. My intention this week is to help others who are less fortunate. I am adopting a family from my area for Christmas and fulfilling their Christmas wish list. I hope it helps them to have a little nicer holiday.

Love the idea and reading what others are going to do. I am a full-time working mom to a 4-year girl, 2-year boy and 6-month old baby. Between work, kids and the holidays it is chaos at my house. My meaningful activity will be to spend 30-minutes alone with each of my children doing something they love! I foresee playing princess (again), racing cars and peek-a-boo in my future. Thank you!

I’m frantically trying to get years of my grandmothers stories transcribed and printed as a gift to give her for her birthday in february, she’s been asking for it for years, and wants to see it all compiled before she dies. I hope I make it!

My meaningful activity this week is to just make it through the week. Between being sick and a very hectic period at work, I can not do more. But I also know that I am lucky to have a great family that makes it all seem better.

I too was fascinated by the Meaningful Beauty infomercial and was, I guess not so secretly now, DYING to try it! An easy and consistent skin routine had been on my wish list for years. My meaningful activity this week is to see Anna Karenina with my friend who is 7 months pregnant. Though it may seem small, our girlfriend circle is predominantly single women without children, whose idea of a fun time is happy hour and/or dinner and cocktails. Since her pregnancy we have seen less and less of her as she didnt enjoy being the only one having a mocktail or Dr. Pepper. Her friendship means a lot to me, so I’m happy to spend this quality time with her!

i’ve always been intrigued my ms. crawford’s line…it’s been so great to follow along and hear your experience! my meaningful activity this week is actually happening today…i am taking my two children to pick out toys that we will donate to ‘toys for tots’. we are starting this tradition with them being only 2 1/2 and almost 1 year old, so in the years to come they will know that we are always taking the time to give to others whom may not be as fortunate as we are. happy holidays!!!

I took my best friend’s 3 kids yesterday when school was cancelled due to the snowstorm. She HAD to go to work in downtown Minneapolis and was desperate. I had my 2 boys home and my husband also. It is meaningful that we all survived But it is worth it to help someone in need. Plus we helped our neighbors dig out of the snow, including a policeman that needed to get to court. He thanked us with a $50 gift card last night!! So sweet and unexpected! I guess what we did was meaningful to him. Anyway, I just turned 40 and desperately need help with my skin and permission to take care of myself!! Thanks!

This is a wonderful giveaway! As I’ve gotten a bit older (but not old, mind you), I have been taking notice of my changing skin. It is time to be concerned about it’s youth!
Meaningful activities: A meaningful activity that my partner and I try to do once a week is meeting outside of the apartment for a date. I have been unemployed for several months and often am home when he gets home from work. We’ve found that it is all too easy to fall into the humdrum routine. It doesn’t help our relationship for either of us to feel neglected. So we make an effort to something fun and together outside the home once during the week. It has given us many fond memories and has helped our relationship to grow.
Pick me!

My meaningful activity for the week is going to be doing as much as I can to help my mom prepare for the holidays by shopping, baking and cleaning because her parents my grandparents are both at the end of their lives and dont have much longer on this earth. She spends everyday with them caring for them. She feels completely stressed out over the holidays and I want to help ease that as much as I possibly can.

My meaningful activity this week was clearing driveways and walks for the 3 elderly neighbors we have…one in her 80’s…one in her 90’s and finally Bob who turns 103 this week!!! Our family cannot wait to visit and enjoy a piece of cake with him later this week.

My meaningful activity is to continue cultivating my friendship with some of the best women in the world. We’ve been getting together once a month for over 13 years and we’ve seen each other in all the good times and the bad. It is wonderful having a support system of girlfriends you can rely on!

Signing up to start my 200 hour yoga teacher training was my meaningful activity this week. Yoga has helped me grow so much stronger both physically and mentally in the past 2 years. I’m excited to learn to teach so I can share it with others in hopes they’ll find their own meaning in the practice for their lives on and off the mat.

My meaningful activity this week was helping my best, forever friend celebrate her 50th birthday by zip-lining over a 100 foot valley in southern Minnesota on Saturday. I was scared to death, but she was so excited that I couldn’t let her down. My legs were shaking and my hands were sweating but her friendship means to much to me that I literally took a leap of faith….and screamed for joy the whole way!

My meaningful activity this week was taking care of my sister’s dog, Simon, while she’s in Tuscany. And taking him on a 2 hour walk in the blizzard on Sunday because bounding over snow and digging in drifts is his favorite (and wears him out so I can get some work done).

Count me in! My meaningful activity has been a weekly donation of a bag of groceries to the food pantry at my church. The donations provide food for needy families in my community and guarantee that families who are financially strained will have the opportunity to come to church for a hot meal on Christmas Eve as well.

in the midst of a crazy holiday season my meaningful activity will be continuing to find time to take care of myself, by running and practicing yoga, but also to be present in my interactions with my family. My oldest daughter is leaving for college in the fall, so feeling the importance of this time with my whole family under the same roof.

Great giveaway!!! My meaningful activity was spending friday night with my nephews and my inlaws – we drove all over town checking out christmas lights and listening to christmas carols – it was a total blast and a wonderful way to spend some time together!

My meaningful activity this week seems to be my neverending meaningful activity, I have been attempting to be present in each and every moment, whether it be truly listening to what my husband has to say on the commute home instead of saying “uh-huh” while browsing through pinterest, or making everyone turn off their electronics during dinner every night (which is a huge challenge), or even doing small creative (and not very messy) activites with two chiuldren under the age of six.

Everytime someone pays me a compliment, I say “Thank you”. It makes me glow inside
and think wow that was nice of them. I tell myself I should do that more. So here’s to
doing and not just thinking. To feel meaningful this week, I will give a compliment to
everyone I interact with. A sincere compliment from the heart takes no effort.
Elizabeth Dehn, I love the simple focus of a single topic for our busy lives. Thanks.

I’m in! My meaningful activity will be to work with my employer’s charitable giving foundation to secure a grant for a local non-profit I support (The Cedar Cultural Center, for any MN folks out there…great folks!).

My parents are both still alive, thank God, but are in frail health. My Meaningful Act the past few months was to research and create both sides of our family tree.

My Grannie was placed in a peach crate and left on the steps of a convent one Fall evening in the late 1800s. She was adopted and eventually she and her birth mother got back in touch, however our Family Tree sort of stopped there because we weren’t certain of her birth father. I did some research and found out the birth father’s name and completed the rest of our Family Tree. I’ve been able to trace both sides of my Mother and Father’s lineage to the 1600s (and I’m still going!)

For Christmas I am presenting them with a Family Tree I created, complete with old photos and new ones of their 3 new great grandchildren! I think they will love the discovery of who my Mother’s biological father was, where he was from and what happened to him–and who his father was, and his father…I’m glad I was able to complete this Meaningful Act before they pass away.

My meaningful activity this week was co-chairing our school’s Giving Tree, in which we coordinated gifts of clothing and books for 15 families (over 50 kids!) in need. This Christmas, they will be receiving necessary clothing to keep them toasty warm this winter season, including coats, snow pants, boots, hats, mittens, plus some super-cute clothes to make them feel fabulous.

My “meaningful activity” tomorrow will be to donate items to a local church from freebies I have received or picked up free with coupons and then I will drop off two bags of free dog and cat food I have accumulated from Petco and Petsmart to my local no-kill animal shelter!! It will be a good day!! Makes me feel good to be able to help others!! Merry Christmas — help someone in need!!

I volunteered with New York Cares at their coat distribution center sorting coats and other household items that will benefit New Yorkers in need most specifically the victims of Hurricane Sandy. Helping people in need in some small way is a beautifully meaningful act.

This will be my third Christmas without my mom…one of the best, most vivid memories I have with her is our Christmas cookie-thon! We would pick a weekend, my daughters and I would sleep over and bake, bake, bake! I have continued this with my daughters and they want to pass it along to their kids. It’s not unusual or out of the ordinary but it brings so many good, fun memories for us, that’s why it’s meaningful : )

My “meaningful Activity” is collection monies to help send “SisterBirthing Kit’s” internationally so that safe birth happens. Also as a nail tech I volunteer my time and services ( Free of Charge) to elderly women that are homebound and want beautiful hands and feet. To me every woman regardless of age should feel beautiful…

I originally posted about wanting to take a spin class and you told me to go for it…so I did and I LOVED it. I’ve gone to two more since and i can’t wait to continue. This is meaningful for me because i really felt that I had to train before I could attend. I was wrong and I’m glad I was!!

My next meaningful project will be to “slow down” between Christmas and New Years and enjoy the time with my family.

Last week your challenge encouraged me to set up two lunch dates with old friends. This week I am going to offer my time to volunteer at our local school. I think this project is like an early New Year’s Resolution and I love it! Thanks for launching a positive idea.

I love that my job is meaningful everyday. I work as a veterinary technician & even when the days are long and hard knowing that I have made a difference in the lives of animals keeps me going. It’s wonderful to love your job

My meaningful activity is knitting mittens for the local Mitten Fairy project. The mittens will be donated to St. Paul area schools. The donations allow elementary school teachers to give mittens to students that need warm hands during recess or the walk to and from school.

I am one of the lucky ones, I have a job that creates “meaningful” activities every shift I work. I work midnight shift as an ICU nurse, which allows me to work diligently to help people every day (well, night). The patients, their families, and other staff. In addition to this, this week I am volunteering at an animal rescue, which is my other passion. I have had some of the most wonderful experiences with rescued furbabies as pets. And last, I will be spreading the word about a new pamering product that I have fallen in love with…..

My meaningful activity was during our big snowstorm in Mpls last weekend … I spent many hours outside of my comfort zone shovelling and moving car for my elderly eccentric neighbor so that she didnt’ get towed or ticketed during snow emergency. Even fell down HARD on the ice – something I try to avoid every winter!

My meaningful activity seems to be 24/7 as a new mommy. While I’m not able to put the time to help others right now as much as I would like, I feel like being the best mommy to my little one is the most meaningful to me. As a new mom AND a business owner, we spend our days handling client work then playing. The juggling act is certainly not easy, but it’s super meaningful when I get to see that beautiful little smile or great belly laugh. Maybe I can slather something on my face that will make me appear lovely and bag-free. After all, when my hubby comes home and I’m STILL in my PJ’s, I need all the help I can get!

For my life’s second half, my meaningful activity is to live in the present — releasing the past to the past and worry less (I don’t know if can completely absolutely never worry!) about the future. This will create an environment where I can take care of myself and be good to those I love. It’s never ever too late to start again!

As someone who is in the “fall” of my lifetime, I try to make a point of finding something positive and memorable about each day. Life seems to slip by so swiftly if you don’t take the time to savor the moment. For the holidays I enjoy creating hand made gifts for my friends and family. I love to spend the time reminiscing about the recipient as I work and recalling the special times we enjoyed together.

Lots of meaningful stuff is happening this month, as we get to spend time with family and friends, but especially meaningful to us will be decorating a tree in our very first home together! We just became home owners over the summer, so this particularly exciting!

My meaningful activity is something I have been doing for 4 years now. There are a lot of homeless and food insecure families in the area I live, well I think in most areas right now. But 4 days a week I am blessed to be able to help the people in my community by providing them with healthy fresh food that will feed their families for the week. Not a government run program of can food and beans but a grass roots attempt to deliver fresh veggies, dairy, meat, bread and love to not only feed their bellies but their souls. The hugs are as plentiful as the food!

I signed up to be an Imerman’s Angel. This is an organization that provides one-on-one support to people going through a cancer. When I was diagnosed with my brain tumor at age 31, I was sure I was going to die. Years later, I am still here and doing great and I realized that what I needed back then was to talk to someone who has been through it. So that’s what I offer to others. It isn’t much, but it’s what I have to give.

My meaningful activity is to redeem the time. One way that I’m going to fulfill this is to be selfish with things that matter (ex: spending time with family/friends, focusing and doing things for others rather than myself, selfishly lavishing others with kind words<–does that even make sense, haha). Therefore, if I somehow get chosen as one of the winners, this will be given to my mother who's selfishly and tirelessly sacrificed so much for my family.

My meaningful activity is to bake holidays cookies and distribute them to friends and family to thank hem for being there for me. I know it’s a small gesture, but the action of doing something for others is so pleasurable!

My meaningful activity is to kick everyone’s butt when I teach my spinning class on Saturday morning. I so hope they’ll be thankful for me!
I’m thankful for what I have in this world and I embrace my life each and every day – I strive to live, laugh, and love more with my 3 beautiful boys, who make my life most meaningful.

My meaningful activity involves my wonderful group of First Grade students…we had a change collection (in part of a Project Based Learning Activity) and our 6 classes of Firsties raised $1,044.00 — with this money, we purchased items to make bags for the homeless. Each resuable shopping bag contained a fleece blanket, chapstick, snacks, water bottles, toothbrushes, toothpaste, etc. Today, we met under a bridge in San Antonio, Texas and passed out these bags to some very deserving people! It was a blessing to be able to do this for them and a wonderful experience for my own children to be a part of! It truly was a blessing in disguise. I loved seeing their faces when we handed them the bag and to be able to visit with them…..we have SO much to be thankful for!